Everyone followed silently, Liang Shifa had two team members in front of him, one on the left and one on the right, and a few miles away, there were also two team members in front of the sentry, which were too far apart and could only be followed by the logo.

When people leave the village, they point to the sea from the sign.

It is not surprising that there are large sheds on the outskirts of the village and some utensils such as iron pots, which are all too common in this area.

Closer, the ground beneath your feet is damp and soft, and seawater seeps out after you settle down, and this is the tidal flat near the sea, which is submerged by the rising sea water at high tide, and when you retreat, a large area of muddy ground is exposed, which is quite difficult to walk at this time.

The village had been left far behind, and the only vegetable fields and fishing nets hanging from wooden poles were far from the sea, and they were long gone.

Wearing boots or linen shoes, people walked cautiously in the damp earth, lest they make a little more noise and alarm the enemy who was lurking in the dark.

When the sound of the tide crashing on the shore was heard, the two team members in front stopped in turn, and two more people appeared under the moonlight.

Liang Shifa's palms were full of sweat, so he walked forward separately, secretly remembering the logo, and the regulations on the code, in fact, they were all explained by Min Yuanqi, and everyone did as ordered.

He didn't know how Lord Deputy Qianhu knew about such a thing, and how he knew so much about these strange things, but so far, everything was still quite smooth, which also made Liang Shifa breathe a sigh of relief.

Closer, after meeting with the first four team members in front, the two sentry agents in front were already covered in mud, and the two whispered: "Shicai stared all the way here, the three of them gathered and walked together, we were afraid of being found lying down in the muddy water from time to time, fortunately, the three people didn't look back at all, otherwise the moonlight was very good tonight, and maybe they would be discovered......"

"I'll talk about these things later." Liang Shifa coldly interrupted his subordinates' performances, and said in a deep voice: "What is the situation ahead?" ”

"When they got to the sea, they went south again, we knew that there were no villages in the south, and it was probably their hiding place, so we quietly followed them again, and found that there were many people talking in front of us, and there was a bright light, so we didn't dare to go any deeper, so we quietly turned back again."

"Very good, I will remember the credit, and I will report it to the adults when the time comes."

"Thank you, Mr. Vice-Bai."

Liang Shifa is a quartermaster, and he also has the name of the deputy hundred households, six taels of Yulu and six stone grains per month, which is slightly worse than the level of the hundred general, but he has no complaints, speaking of his training and leading troops is not as good as Yang Zhijin and others, and his loyalty and ability earlier are not as good as Min Yuanzhong, and now he can serve as the deputy hundred general, one is that he was a small flag officer before, and the other is that he has the skill of going south to sentry, so Liang Shifa is extremely cautious and quite attentive to this sentry.

Not only for merit, but also for the safety of the 300th household, and for the future of everyone.

Liang Shifa's face showed a resolute look, before leaving, his wife repeatedly told him to be cautious, although Liang Shifa did not indicate what he was doing when he went out, but the enemy was currently sent out, and the risk must be not small, Liang's wife has a strong personality, Liang Shifa has always been a little afraid of internal problems, before leaving, he originally thought that his wife would be angry, but his wife just advised him to be careful, but there was no extra words.

When he said goodbye, his wife was also determined, and only advised him to be more careful, but she didn't say anything irrelevant.

At this point, Liang Shifa also understands his wife's intentions, even if it is dangerous, as long as he is more careful, Mo Lang threw his life, and his wife also supported him to go to the sentinel to investigate the enemy's situation, because from top to bottom, he knew that this matter was very important, and Liang Shifa also had experience, and this task belonged to him.

Since Liang Shifa brought back the news that the bandits were coming, a lot of people have run away, and although the rest are determined and willing to live and die with hundreds of households, they are also panicked, and hundreds of households are shocked every day.

You must know that this matter is like waiting for the boots to land, death row prisoners and other beheadings, that kind of unresolved feeling is more sad and depressing than the matter is really coming, after Liang Shifa confirmed that the bandits came, the morale of the army and the people in the hundred households was lifted, everyone was gearing up, and they couldn't wait to do a fight with the bandits immediately, and Liang Shifa whistled to find out where the bandits were hiding, how many shares, and what the situation of the soldiers and horses was, which is also quite important.

If Liang Shifa had enlightenment, before that, he only thought that he was a detailed leader, and everything he did was sneaky things, and he thought that he would go back to manage the military quartermaster after doing this, but he didn't want Min Yuanjin to continue to serve as a part-time officer. At this moment, thinking of the recognition and trust of Min Yuanqi and his colleagues, as well as the respect and admiration of his wife and other relatives and friends, Liang Shifa faintly felt that although he was now rolling in the mud, what he did was no worse than fighting hard in front of the battle!

More than a dozen people divided into a fan shape and walked cautiously in the muddy mudflats.

More than three miles ahead, the light of the bonfire was faintly visible under the moonlight.

Further on, the voices of people, the laughter of people, and the noise were quite obvious in the silent dark night.

Liang Shifa made a hand gesture, the six members of the peripheral team stopped, and further forward there may be a bandit's secret outpost, once it is discovered, it may be difficult to get out, the whole team is scattered like a trapezoid, once there is a police, it is quite easy for the team members assigned at the end to escape.

Several people in front continued to move forward with Liang Shifa, there was no cover here, and everyone was sweating every step forward, because as long as there were sentinel guards, it would be difficult for them to hide their tracks, and it would be a matter of time before they were discovered. But it is impossible for Liang Shifa not to advance, the distance is still far away, and he can't see the situation on the bandits' side clearly, and the sentinel is still not successful!

After Liang Shifa moved forward again, with the light of the moonlight and the bonfire, the situation ahead was quite clear.

There are about 20 or so bonfires on the seaside tidal flats, close to farmland and roads, but there are no villages here, and the land above the sea is overgrown with weeds and shrubs, and these bandits have chosen a good place, three or four miles away from the official road, and the villages in the north and south have five or six miles each, only a small number of acres have been opened up, and most of the places along the coast are shrubs and sparse woodland. In later generations, these places are all towns, villages and land, and it is impossible for such a large area of wasteland to appear, but at this moment, along the area from Haizhou to Yancheng County, there are many coastal wastelands, the population density is small, and people can't plant paddy fields near the river, so it is impossible to open up land along the coast and slowly form villages.

And there is a problem, at this time the Huai River is slowly accumulating sediment at the mouth of the river, a hundred years later, the mouth of the river has receded for dozens of miles, in addition to the Huai River, there are many rivers as well, the coast is slowly receding. In later generations, there were quite a few places in the Yancheng area that were converted from the sea to land for hundreds of years after the end of the Ming Dynasty, because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the desolation of the seaside was far greater than that of later generations, these bandits seemed to be bold, but in fact, they were also led by insiders, at least in this place, Liang Shifa and others would not be able to easily find them if they did not follow the fine work sent by the bandits.

In a hundred miles along the coast, with a dozen or so people combing and grateing, it is really impossible to find the hiding place of these people in front of you.

There are more than 20 bonfires, and under each bonfire there are dozens of people sitting cross-legged, or half-lying with their bodies tilted, or even lying on the ground.

There are also bandits with knives, guns and even fork rakes, who are extremely bored, wielding weapons at will amid shouts and shouts, and are bragging about their bulls with their companions, and all kinds of sounds are directly transmitted to the ears of Liang Shifa and others.

"Let's follow the sweeping king in Yancheng County, we can go wherever we want, and we can rob whoever we want. Only the county town can't enter, in fact, it's also afraid that the court will be anxious, otherwise the county town will be broken, which of our hundreds of brothers is not a good skill, and it will be broken! What a need to be in this deserted village and wilderness, blowing the sea breeze and freezing half to death, what a fucking thief! ”

"But no, we have more than 300 brothers in Jinliang, how can we be so sneaky? It has always been a clear knife and a gun, if you don't accept it, you will fuck it, you should kill it, you should fight it, you will fight it, the head has a big scar, and after 18 years, you are a good man, since you have come out and fallen into the grass, you are still afraid of wolves and tigers, I bah. ”

"Qin Mountain thieves, I think it's also in vain."

"Why should we be stuck here listening to a bunch of pirates, we can do it ourselves."

"It's a pity that the big bosses of each family are now on the island, and it's useless to talk about it now."

Liang Shifa lay in the mud, listening to the shouts of the bandits less than a hundred steps away, cold sweat kept pouring up on his forehead, his clothes were soaked in mud and sweat, and his whole body was soaked. But he didn't dare to move, the nearest campfire was only a few dozen steps away, and if the pirates looked carefully on the beach, they were afraid that he would be spotted lying on his stomach. Fortunately, these bandits are extremely arrogant, and from their words, they are not convinced by each other, boasting about themselves and looking down on the rest of the bandits, and all the bandits are not in line with the pirates. The main reason is that the pirates are famous, and the pirates of Qinshan Island are also quite famous, and the government cannot clear them without sailors, and these pirates are much more ferocious than the bandits, and their reputation is much louder.

This operation is also obviously dominated by Qinshan Island bandits, and the bandits are only assisted, so they are naturally extremely unconvinced, and it is quite obvious between the words.

This time, it is obvious that Yang Shili is in the middle, these bandits and the salt lord are cooperating with each other, and the bandits often receive instructions from the salt lord to do some dirty work that the salt lord is not good to do, the stove households who do not listen to instructions, those small private salt dealers, and the big foreign salt merchants, etc.

Yang Shili and other salt lords, the relationship can go to the north and south of the capital, and the noble eunuchs are inextricably linked, a large amount of private salt from various channels, only a few nursing homes Ding salt dogs, how can it achieve such a large scale? It is inevitable that the salt lord has force, several major forces at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng is 100% of the salt lord from the background, and the rest of the major forces are more or less inseparable from private salt, in the end, it is a pure mud leg Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, continue to take the road of heavy agriculture and suppress business, and also banned the sea by the way, whether it is Chen Youliang or Zhang Shicheng won the world, will not take this kind of retrogressive road, although the Ming Taizu drove away the Meng Yuan to restore the Han family and rebuild civilization, but in fact, the early Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty is the recovery period of Han civilization, Even the recovery is very bad. A lot of things in Mengyuan, such as beating the minister's butt to insult the personality, martyrdom, as well as the financial bureaucracy system and the military and health system are all badly designed, under the specific conditions of the early Ming Dynasty, there is still something to say about the resumption of production by heavy farming, but in the middle of the year, there is no modification, and even Zhang Juzheng is such a sewing and repairing the responsible politicians are only a handful, the Ming Dynasty can survive for nearly three hundred years, and it can only be said that the hostile forces in the same period are also in sharp decline.